Between the woman and the mother. Medical discourses and the construction of gender norms (Argentina, 1930-1940)

Abstract

The work explores the construction of gender norms on women that were built from the medical discourse. To do this, from a relational perspective of analysis we examined interventions various positions in the medical field. Its varied political-ideological positions, their social relationships and their different spheres of action are relevant inflections to understand how differentiated or overlapped around construction of social roles at the local level. The dominant narratives linked to femininity to motherhood. The marginal interventions, from anarchist doctors, tensed those conceptualizations and promoted emancipatory ideas